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Don't You Forget About Me......
Don't You Forget About Me...... OH. MY. GOD. Firstly I'd like to apologise profusely to the author of the next blogshare post. I thought I had posted this one but evidently.....I didn't However...this is actually my 200th blog post....so I hope that goes some way to making it up to her..... I have a feeling I'm going to be paying for this for quite some time lol To all the people who read mine on her blog...NOW it'll make sense Here she is ladies and gentlemen.....smartasswoman I was really pleased when spudsy1000 asked me if I’d like to do a blog swap with him. Well…pleased…and embarrassed. Why embarrassed? You see, even though I love getting blog comments from spudster, and love the comments that he leaves on other peoples’ blogs (he is a serial commenter extraordinaire); I have been remiss about visiting and commenting on HIS blog. Why this omission? There is a hint in this section of Potato-man’s index: The Reviews: The Chase is Better Than the Catch Motorhead ......... This is the end...... Ozzy Osbourne ......... American Bad Ass Rock ......... Guitar Orgasm Lynyrd Skynyrd ......... Let It Out George Canyon ......... No One Came Deep Purple Have mercy. Motorhead? Ozzy Osbourne? Yes, the truth is out. I’m a music snob. When I let the cat out of the bag to His Tuberousness that I might be teasing him about his taste in music, he wanted to know what kind of music *I* like – I’m sure he had hopes of reciprocally roasting me over the coals. I was maddeningly vague – I said, “my taste is eclectic” Here’s a brief history of my journey of musical taste (or lack thereof). High School: I liked Dan Fogelberg because he had dreamy green eyes. College: I was an R&B/disco girl – Earth Wind and Fire, The Brothers Johnson, and so on. I may also have owned a Boz Scaggs album that got played to death. :”> And, shame upon shame, I believe I attended a Barry Manilow concert (not my idea, it was my freshman year boyfriend who wanted to see him) . In my last year of college I was visiting the music lounge in the student union (now there’s a sign of change – they actually used to have a lounge where you could check out a<b> vinyl </font></b>record, take it to a turntable and listen on head phones). I checked out My Aim is True by Elvis Costello and thus smarty the new waver/punk rocker was born 1979-1989 was a mad whirl of seeing as many concerts/gigs as I could possibly squeeze in, while holding down a normal job. The Clash, the Talking Heads, REM, Blondie, Elvis, X, countless local bands including the Replacements, the Suburbs, Husker Du. 1990-2004 was sort of a black hole – I was in a relationship with a guy who was always wanting to get up at 7 am to go do a 100 mile bike ride or something. Late nights at the bars disappeared from my lifestyle. Staying current with the hot musical groups suffered. I did buy several Everclear CD’s and found them useful for running and riding my bike on the stationary trainer in the basement – ha. Since saying goodbye to Mr. Enduro Athlete, I’ve been trying to re-invigorate my music-going ways. Know what? Late nights and standing up for three hours to watch a band are kind of hard when you’re getting old Still, I maintain my pretensions of being “above” liking mainstream music. Resulting in at least two memorable fails on the part of men who I met from this site: Fail #1: We were having a “first meet” drink when ELO came on the sound system. I said ELO was a guilty pleasure for me (certain mainstream music, like ABBA and ELO, is OK to like if it’s in an ironic kind of way ). He replied, “I like ELO. There’s been no good music since 1980”. This was in 2006 or so. Poor dude hadn’t liked any new music for 26 years! Fail #2: I was driving downtown with a guy, to go see Jolie Holland at the Fine Line Cafe. It was our second or third date and he seemed like a nice enough guy. But then, in the car, he said, “So, do you like bands like Boston and Kansas?” Um. At a total loss for a response to that. Ouch. However, despite these pretensions, if I am to be totally honest with myself, I am “alternative” but in a despicably mellow way. Who do I love these days? Jeremy Messersmith, Rogue Valley, Fleet Foxes, the Decemberists, Dawes…they may not be ‘mainstream’ but they sure ain’t the Clash either. So rock on, spudsy. Truth be told, I like anyone who is passionate about music, even if I don’t share their tastes. Audience participation time. Do you have a particular snobbish taste that results in ‘fails’ with your Ay FF prospects? Music? Literature? Food? Craft beers? "A full blown basket of hash browns with a steaming cup of 'WTF?" on the side" Enter my Lair: spudsy1000 |
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Oh noooooo the emoticons didn't come through on the cut and paste! Here I was trying to over emote a la Spudsy and now it just looks like I forgot my punctuation
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<< tries to figure out how to rapidly back-pedal - lol. I honestly can't believe that you would make such a statement in the grumpy manner that that particular old fart did. If you truly believe there's been no good music since 1980; I'm willing to bet I could change your mind on that.
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Isn't it awesome when you meet someone and they can introduce you to cool new music? Kind of the opposite experience of the the two "fails" that I wrote about Yeah, techno is not my fave although I did like some of LCD Soundsystem's stuff.
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4/13/2012 11:31 am |
I love music..it goes with my life~
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I love music..it goes with my life~
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Do you have a particular snobbish taste that results in ‘fails’ with your Ay FF prospects? Standard member dudes who live locally That's pretty much why I stay away from the IMC--it's loaded with standard dudes trying to get laid with little effort, at least IMO. As for music, my taste is quite limited--Bon Jovi or Journey. As for the others, I'll listen to them if they're playing somewhere but I won't actively load them in my music player.
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Do you have a particular snobbish taste that results in ‘fails’ with your Ay FF prospects? Standard member dudes who live locally That's pretty much why I stay away from the IMC--it's loaded with standard dudes trying to get laid with little effort, at least IMO. As for music, my taste is quite limited--Bon Jovi or Journey. As for the others, I'll listen to them if they're playing somewhere but I won't actively load them in my music player.
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